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St. Botoloph
Building
UNDERSTANDING ELEVATORS

Submitted By: Urja Shrestha

Submitted To: Swati Ma'am
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V SEM Building since 2011

Sharda University
 The St Botolph Building is a commercial office in Houndsditch,
02 central London, opened in 2011 and designed by Grimshaw

About us
Architects.
It is one of a number of landmark buildings recently delivered
or in development to the East of the Gherkin in the City of
London ward of Aldgate,
which together with the wards of Langbourn, Cornhill and
Lime Street forms the centre of the UK insurance industry.
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St. Botoloph
Building:

Elevators
Wrapped by striking gradated blue glazing, the building gives 53,000 sq m in total and is organised
around a dramatic light-filled atrium with four perimeter cores.
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Divided equally around the centre, the cores give uniform access to all tenants and was the first
application of this specific kind of twin lift technology in the UK.
This arrangement allows each of its 16 lifts to operate independently in the same shaft, optimising access
for all users.
The arrangement of the Thyssen Krupp lift system allows two independent lift cars to run in the same
shaft simultaneously.
An intelligent call system provides co-ordination of the elevator group and assigns passengers to the lift
best suited to their destination.
 Thyssen Krupp Twin Lift System
04 The TWIN elevator system has two cars, arranged on top of each other, that operate independently
in one shaft. Each elevator has its own traction drive, controller, ropes, counterweight and governor
and share the same guide rails and landing doors.

TWIN elevator systems reduced space needed for the elevators by 2,700 m² (29,000 square feet) –an
increase of 6 percent of leasable space.
The 13-floor office, St. Botholph Building in London houses eight TWIN elevators, which is the
world’s largest group. By using eight TWIN systems, only eight shafts were required and less power
was needed to move lighter cars. There were also less space requirements in the shaft head and
machine rooms, which increased leasable space, less energy and reduced construction cost.
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Twin Lift System by Thyssen Krupp

 STEPS OF USING TWIN ELEVATOR SYSTEM
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The AGILE – Destination Control terminals in front of an elevator group and the intelligent dispatching software analyzes the request – gauging traffic
demand and grouping passengers based on similarity of destination. This leads to less crowding, fewer stops and a more efficient use of available elevator
capacity

STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3

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Passengers use the terminal to select their

AGILE terminal clearly directs each Passengers board the assigned elevator that
floor. You can add custom button labels
passenger to an assigned elevator. transports them to theirdestination.
and logos to make the process even easier.
06 CONVENTIONAL AGILE- DESTINATION
OPERATION CONTROLS OPERATION
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Passengers crowd into lobbies and press elevator push buttons, Passengers use a terminal to select their floor. The intelligent
which can only register limited information — basically just single dispatching software collects their information, analyzes their
“up or down” requests. In turn, the passengers board the first requests, gauges traffic demand and groups them based on similarity
elevator to answer the call. of destination.
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ADVANTAGES OF TWIN LIFT SYSTEM

HANDLE MORE TRAFFIC

Whether used in new buildings or as part of a modernization
project, TWIN can transport up to fourty percent more
passengers.

SAVE MONEY
TWIN drastically cuts labor and materials expenses by sharing a
single shaft, guide rails and landing doors. TWIN pays dividends
for years to come.
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REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION

TWIN can park one cab while the other stays in operation. So
when passenger volumes are low, no energy is consumed moving
empty cars. Furthermore, all TWIN elevator systems can
be equipped with an energy recovery function which can
feed about 30 percent of the energy generated by braking
back into the building’s power grid.